Long blank video (1:46:39)

I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor) by duplicating several times the one in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFbc7LWUL8g . This one too is completely empty: no images, no audio. It is uploaded here for experimental reuses in closed captioning platforms. Obviously, it is in the public domain, even though YT does not offer this licensing option.

Update Jan 14, 2012: As I tried to explain in the comments to irate/baffled/amused viewers. I uploaded this video for a purely instrumental purpose: seeing how online collaborative subtitling/captioning instruments can be diverted to collaboratively translate normal texts, and to then export the translation, as you would export the file of translated subtitles.
Of course, you can also collaboratively translate on a wiki page, but the advantage of doing it in a subtitling app is that the original text above the translated part cannot get deleted: this makes revision easier.

I started toying with this 2 and half years ago with DotSUB: see http://etcjournal.com/2009/04/05/collaborative-text-translation-with-dotsub/ . But the problems with DotSUB for that are that a) it does not allow you to have subtitles longer that what its programmers deemed suitable; b) subtitles HAVE to be time-coded and can only be exported in time-coded formats, and it's a bore to have to delete all the time codes if what you want is just a plain text translation of a normal text.
So I decided to try again with Universal Subtitles, where you can transcribe without time-coding. and where you can translate the "non time-coded" transcript, and export the translation as a .txt file.
So I used this irritating blank video to create http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/xHZzawTR9MLF/ , to which I added, as if it were a transcript of the video, Cory Doctorow's "Constitutional Crisis" short story (1). And then I started to translate it in Italian in the http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/xHZzawTR9MLF/it/222759/ subpage: click on "Edit Subtitles" if you wish to see the translation interface.
That's all this empty video is about: just a means to create a translating interface for a text that is just a text.

Update Nov. 7, 2012 Changes to the Amara software made it impossible to re-use the already used "subtitle sets": I therefore asked for the deletion of the above-mentioned page, and made a new one in http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/69iJjyH8euXi/info/long-blank-video-14639/ .

(1) from his "With a Little Help" collection, whose text can be bought in print or downloaded under a , under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ license as a digital file from http://craphound.com/walh/e-book/browse-all-versions
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Update March 5, 2012:
As people inexplicably continue to view this empty video, I'm annotating it with links to real videos of interest. So far:
- Say NO to ACTA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=citzRjwk-sQ
- " Se la mafia... Il mulo de Paniz" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG8m7-pMJ_c (see description for interesting links)
- "Listening is learning" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o67wV-MhlY8
- V4B - Video4Blind ("Ho scelto il Costa di Lecce! (V4B)" http://youtu.be/K_BidSCokLc

(June 16, 2012)
And now: Don't Leave Me Out, with subs so far in English, French, German, Hebrew and Italian: http://youtu.be/w91A_nB4rx0 .
The video can be subtitled into further languages at http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/zBpewNm5P8GV/info/dont-leave-me-out/ .

and now in the name of our loving

liberating and life-giving God Father

Son and Holy Spirit a man from the Song

of Solomon in the Bible set me as a seal

upon your heart as a seal upon your arm

the love is as strong as death passion

fears as the grave

it's flashes of flashes of fire a raging

flame many waters cannot quench love

neither can floods drown it out the late

dr. Martin Luther King once said in that

quote we must discover the power of love

the redemptive power of love and when we

do that we will make of this old world a

new world but love love is the only way

there's power in love don't

underestimate don't even over

sentimentalize it there's power power in

love if you don't believe me think about

a time when you first fell in love the

whole world seemed to center around you

and your beloved well this power power

in love not just in its romantic forms

but any form any shape of love there's a

certain sense in which when you are

loved and you know it when someone cares

for you and you know

when you love and you show it it

actually feels right there's something

right about it and there's a reason for

it

the reason has to do with the source we

were made by a power of love and our

lives were meant and are meant to be

lived in that love that's why we were we

are here ultimately the source of love

is God Himself the source of all of our

lives there's an old medieval poem that

that says where true love is found God

Himself is there the New Testament says

it this way beloved let us love one

another because love is of God and those

who love are born of God and know God

those who do not love do not know God

for god is love there's power in love

there's power in love to help and heal

when nothing else can there's power in

love to lift up and liberate nothing

else will there's power to show us the

way to live set me as a seal on your

heart a seal on your heart for love it's

as strong as death but but love is not

only about a young couple now the power

of love is demonstrated by the fact that

we're all here to young people fell in

love and we all showed up but but it's

not just for and about a young couple

who we rejoice with it's more than that

Jesus of Nazareth on one occasion was

asked by a lawyer to sum up the essence

of the teachings of Moses and and and

and he went back and reached back into

the Hebrew Scriptures to Deuteronomy and

Leviticus and Jesus said you shall love

the Lord your God with all your heart

all your soul all your mind and all your

strength this is the first and Great

Commandment and the second is like it

love your neighbor as yourself and then

in Matthews version he said on these two

love of God and love of neighbor hang

all the law all the prophets that Moses

wrote everything is the holy prophets

everything everything that God has been

trying to tell the world love God love

your neighbors and why you edit love

yourself know someone once said that

Jesus began the most revolutionary

movement in all of human history a

movement grounded in the unconditional

love of God for the world and a movement

mandating people to live that love and

in so doing to change that of only their

lives but the very life of the world

itself I'm talking about some power

legal power power to change the world if

you don't believe me well there were

small slaves in America's antebellum

South who explained the dynamic power of

love and why it has the power to

transform they explained it this way

they sang a spiritual even in the midst

of their captivity it's one that says

there is a balm and giving a healing

balm something that can make things

right there is a balm in Gilead to make

the wounded whole there is a balm in

Gilead to heal the sick soul and one of

the things actually explains why they

said if you cannot preach like Peter and

you cannot pray like Paul you just tell

the love of Jesus how he died to save us

oh oh that's the balm in Gilead this way

of love is the way of life they got it

he died to save us all he didn't die for

anything he could get out of it

Jesus did not get an honorary Doctorate

for dying he didn't he wasn't getting

anything out of it

he gave up his life he sacrificed his

life for the good of others for the good

of the other for the well-being of the

world for us that's what love is love is

not selfish and so centered love can be

sacrificial and in so doing becomes

redemptive in that way of one selfish

sacrificial redemptive love changes

lives and can change this world if you

don't believe me just just stopping

thing for imagine think

and imagine well he can imagine a world

where love is the way imagine our homes

and families when love is the way

imagine neighborhoods and communities

where love is the way it

imagine governments and nations where

love is the way imagine business and

commerce when love is the way imagine

this tired old world when love is is the

way when love is the way unselfish

sacrificial redemptive when love is the

way then no child will go to bed hungry

in this world ever again when love is

the way we will let justice roll down

like a mighty stream and righteousness

like an ever-flowing group and love is

the way poverty will become history

when the love is the way the earth will

be a sanctuary and love is the way we

will lay down our swords and shields

down by the riverside to study War no

more when love is the way there's plenty

good room got a good room for all of

God's children love is the way we

actually treat each other well like

we're actually family when love is the

way

we know that God is the source of us all

and we are brothers and sisters children

of God my brothers and sisters that's a

new heaven a new earth a new world a new

human family and let me tell you

something old Solomon was right in the

Old Testament that's fire

they are decied on and with this I will

sit down we got to get you all married

French Jesuit ard showdown was arguably

one of the great minds great spirits of

the 20th century Jesuit Roman Catholic

priest scientists a scholar a mystic in

some of his writings he said from his

scientific background as well as his

theological one some of his writings has

said as others have that the discovery

or invention or harnessing of fire was

one of the great one of the great

scientific and technological discoveries

in all of human history fire to a great

extent made human civilization possible

fire made it possible to cook food and

and to provide sanitary ways of eating

which reduced the spread of disease in

its time fire made it possible to to

heat warm environment and thereby made

human migration around the world a

possibility even into colder climates

fire made it possible there is no there

was no Bronze Age without fire no Iron

Age without fire no Industrial

Revolution without fire the advances of

science and technology are greatly

dependent on the human ability and

capacity to take fire and use it for

human good anybody get here in a car

today an automobile knock your heads if

you did I'm guessing I know there were

some carriages but those of us who came

on cars fire the controlled harnessed

fire made that possible I know that the

Bible says I believe Jesus walked on the

water but I have to tell you I didn't

walk across the Atlantic Ocean to get

here

controlled fire in that plane got me

here fire makes it possible for us to

text and tweet an email and Instagram

and and Facebook and socially be

dysfunctional with each other fire all

of that possible and and de Chardin said

fire was one of the greatest discoveries

in all of human history and he then went

on to say that if humanity ever

harnesses the energy of fire again if

humanity ever captures the energy of

love it will be the second time in

history that we have discovered fire

dr. King was right we must discover love

the redemptive power of love and when we

do that we will make of this old world a

new world my brother my sister

God love you god bless you and may God

hold us all in those Almighty hands of

love